Improvement in cultivators



A. JONES Cultivator.

" N0.I96,670. Patented Oct. 30, I877.

' lTN SE INVENTOR M am ATTORN EYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASA JONES, OF SNOW HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHTTO JOHN H. DAIL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATO RS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,670, dated October30, 1877; application filed September 8, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ASA JONES, of Snow Hill, in the county of Greene andState of North Carolina, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inCultivators; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear, and exact-description of the construction and operation of thesame, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of thisspecification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal verticalsectional view of my cultivator, and Fig. 2 a plan view of the same.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a cultivator, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate myinvention.

A represents an ordinary plow-beam, with handles B B, said handles beingbraced by a bar, (3, connecting the rear end of the beam with a roundbetween the handles.

D represents aboard or plate, of rectangular or other suitable form,held to the under side of the beam A by means of two bolts, a a, passingthrough beam, through curved slots 1) b in the board, and through aplate or bar, 0!, on the under side of the board.

In each end of the board D is a curved slot,

- e, said two slots running in opposite directions-one near the frontedge and the other near the rear edge, as shown. Under each end of theboard D is fastened a plow, which is fastened by a single bolt, f,forming the center of the circle of which the curved slot c is an arc.Each plow is then held at any angle, according to the angle at which theboard D is placed, and held by a bolt, h, passing through the slot 0.The bolts f and h also pass through a plate or bar, d, on top of theboard.

The plows used are each composed of a frame, E, with shovel-plow G infront and wings H in rear. The board may be adjusted and held at anyangle under the plow-beam, according to the work intended to be done,the plows being then adjusted to correspond. The board may be held atright angles to the beam, in which case a turning-plow may be worked oneach end of the beam, for the purpose of bedding or listing land forcorn or cotton. A third plow may then be worked in front of the board,and the end plows, being turn-plows, making a list or bed on the centerfurrow; or it may be worked in rear of the board, cleaning out the balkor middle left by the plows worked on the ends of the board, which maybe turning-plows or shovel or cotton plows.

When the board is set at an angle of fortyfive degrees three plows maybe worked on the board-one in the center and one at each end-thedistances between the furrows being regulated by the curved slots andbolts. Sweeps with points may be worked when the other plows areremoved.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the plow-beam A, of the adjustable board D,slotted at each end at c, and in the center at b, with theadjustingplows G E fastened thereto by means of the bolts f h, andoperating in the manner as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

ASA JONES.

Witnesses:

WM. H. SUGG, J NO. D. GRmsBY.

